Meet the composers
Connect with some of today’s most exciting composers, showcasing the richness and diversity of new music in the UK.
Explore the composers below or take our quiz and discover which Music Patron composer is the best match for you.
- Opera
- Orchestral
- Vocal and choral
A versatile composer of concert music, Alice Beckwith’s music is lyrical and contemporary – her melodic sound firmly rooted in the British Isles – with an emphasis above all upon story-telling. Collaborations and commissions include Endelienta Baroque, The Carice Singers, AndPiano Festival (‘Five Armitage Songs’), and St Endellion Easter Festival.
- Electronic
- Orchestral
- Rock
David John Roche’s music is direct, determined, and loud. Strongly influenced by heavy metal, lush orchestral music, and his working-class Welsh background, he has been marked out as a “clear-minded and class-conscious artist” (Culture Matters) and “one of the most energetic, driven, and successful of Wales’s millennial generation of composers” (Tŷ Cerdd).
- Musical theatre
- Pop
Rachel is a GRAMMY voting member, the recipient of a prestigious British Citizen Award for contribution to the arts.
The writer of new British musical The Circle and winner of the Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize 2023, Rachel is currently writing songs with Grammy, Emmy and Ivor Novello award winners, The Voice UK and American Idol alumni and Oscar nominees.
- Electronic
- Orchestral
Robert Laidlow is a composer and researcher based in the UK. His “gigantically imaginative” (BBC Radio 3) music is concerned with developing new forms of creative expression through the relationship between music, advanced technology, and scientific research.
